The DDoS attack on 10/21/16 that took down Dyn wreaked havoc throughout the internet. Many websites like Spotify, Twitter, Paypal and many other sites were down for a significant amount of time. This goes to show that taking down a major DNS supplier can essentially take down a big portion of the internet. If hackers can do this at their own will how can we know for certain that this won’t happen again in the future even worse.
Article: http://gizmodo.com/todays-brutal-ddos-attack-is-the-beginning-of-a-bleak-f-1788071976
Hello Ioannis/class- this is another example of the amount of power that could be used for a good cause and not negatively. I first saw this article this morning and I was not surprised to learned that the amount of connections pointing to a single nude can create a significant DDOS attack, but this looks like hackers are using more sophisticated weapons since they launched 3 different attacks until evening hours.
This also raises new questions about the Internet of Things and how we are protected against malicious attacks like this one. In my humble opinion, we are not ready for IoT or the amount of network devices connected to the internet, because it imposes great risks and major vulnerabilities.